Is knowing that the metric values are aggregated from raw measurements important?

Open bogdandrutu opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Currently there is a TODO in the metrics proto that needs a decision:

// TODO: Decide if knowing that the metric values are aggregated from raw measurements is important.

Jul 30 '20 22:07 bogdandrutu

In other words, in a Histogram/Summary the count represents the number of times the App recorded values.

Jul 30 '20 23:07 bogdandrutu

I like the idea of narrowly defining this as whether the aggregation Count matches the number of input measurements.

Jul 30 '20 23:07 jmacd